Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyze the material (e.g. create new social and cultural theory), and write academic or policy oriented books, articles, or reports. The reader is taught how to combine historic and contemporary documents (e.g. archives, newspapers, government reports) with fieldwork methods (e.g participant-observation, interviews, and self-reporting) to create ethnographic studies of disadvantaged populations. Anthropologists, Sociologists, Folklorists, and Educational researchers will equally benefit from this critical approach to research.

Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyze the material (e.g. create new social and cultural theory), and write academic or policy oriented books, articles, or reports. The reader is taught how to combine historic and contemporary documents (e.g. archives, newspapers, government reports) with fieldwork methods (e.g. participant-observation, interviews, and self-reporting) to create ethnographic studies of disadvantaged populations. Anthropologists, Sociologists, Folklorists and Educational researchers will equally benefit from this critical approach to research.

Our nation is spending increasingly more dollars to develop software systems. Likewise, the Department of Defense (DoD) allocates more and more dollars to develop software. Consequently, the DoD needs to be able to accurately estimate what these systems' cost so they can develop reliable budgets. To estimate these software costs, the DoD relies on commercial software estimating tools. However, these tools are somewhat unreliable when it comes to estimating military systems, particularly Command, Control, and Communication Systems. The purpose of this study was to develop a parametric model using linear regression to estimate software development costs for Department of Defense Command, Control, and Communications systems.